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Titre :	Nuclear power in the 21st century: Challenges and possibilities
Auteurs :	Akos Horvath, Auteur ; Elisabeth Rachlew, Auteur
Type de document :	Article
Dans :	AMBIO (45 JAN 2016)
Article en page(s) :	38-49
Langues:	Anglais
Résumé :	The current situation and possible future developments for nuclear power-including fission and fusion processes-is presented. The fission nuclear power continues to be an essential part of the low-carbon electricity generation in the world for decades to come. There are breakthrough possibilities in the development of new generation nuclear reactors where the life-time of the nuclear waste can be reduced to some hundreds of years instead of the present time-scales of hundred thousand of years. Research on the fourth generation reactors is needed for the realisation of this development. For the fast nuclear reactors, a substantial research and development effort is required in many fields-from material sciences to safety demonstration-to attain the envisaged goals. Fusion provides a long-term vision for an efficient energy production. The fusion option for a nuclear reactor for efficient production of electricity has been set out in a focussed European programme including the international project of ITER after which a fusion electricity DEMO reactor is envisaged.

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